rogy

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by rogy 2y ago
a few of these have opened in the UK but after visiting a number of them in Tokyo they just don’t work here. people are loud and they mostly are just trendy up-market bars, rather than a place to enjoy the music. staff in two of the places
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by rogy 4y ago
I live in London too, but I really don't think this would work well for most things, Royal Mail, sure. But if I give a this to a private parcel company, theres no way they are going to figure out that, despite being the only #9 in my p
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by rogy 4y ago
living the dream!
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by rogy 4y ago
Yep i live on a managed estate full of old people who’ve lived here since they were built, only get VDSL. Management comittee wouldn’t even let Virgin install cable, so going to have to wait for them all to age out of the committee so we ca
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by rogy 5y ago
I didn’t really even think about this properly until just now.. these days I am looking at Reddit, Facebook groups and if needs be, YouTube (videos not by ‘creators’ as far as possible) to find information I used to google. Ads and referral
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by rogy 5y ago
its also.. actually quite bad, I can't remember the last 'professional' job listing I saw that wasn't at least 25+holidays
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by rogy 5y ago
good? landlording isn’t and shouldn’t be pitched as a risk free investment strategy. I’m glad some landlords have finally realised this.
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by rogy 5y ago
my original airpods were bought feb 2018 and mine still last hours on output only, they last maybe 90 minutes using the microphone on calls though
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by rogy 5y ago
if only that works bring back target display mode. such a waste that it can’t be used as an external display.
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by rogy 6y ago
in the UK it would be’ the front steps’ or ‘front paving’ stoop has a totally different meaning
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by rogy 6y ago
But Tennis isn't dictated on who has the most billions to invest in new technologies, its pretty limited to the amount of money you can spend on coaching.
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by rogy 6y ago
Apples demolition of their entire universe of music products is unbelievably frustrating. I know iTunes never got a great rep but it worked, and iTunes Match was fantastic. Now however they still charge for it, except its totally broken unl
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by rogy 6y ago
One thing I've noticed as I've got more experienced was that when I started out, a PM or senior engineer would give me a task to do. I achieved the outcome, mostly with bad to average code that slowly improved over time. When I fi
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by rogy 6y ago
Similar experience working with Uniqlo UK staff, they would call us for support on trivial issues late at night, demanding that is was of the utmost importance some buried marketing text was changed on random content pages. They mostly soun
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by rogy 6y ago
agree a380 economy can be as comfortable (if you get the upstairs 2 seat aisle) as business in an old 747 ( flew lhr->dfw on an old ba 747, upstairs in business just before lockdown it was pretty sad up there)
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by rogy 6y ago
The only thing iPad Pro users were hoping for was real external display support, no sign of that unfortunately.
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Ask HN: Why shouldn’t I use corporate devices for personal use?
3 points by rogy 6y ago|5 comments
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by rogy 6y ago
this is very interesting.. backend engineers get paid more than front end at the same level. some of the location multiplayers makes the roles completely insane, scotland for example.
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by rogy 7y ago
young, fit, have global travel, health and emergency insurance and enough savings to immediately head to the airport if we needed too..
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by rogy 7y ago
on a side note, i have a week of PTO booked in tokyo then a week in kyoto/osaka, leaving friday. do you think its safe to travel?
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by rogy 7y ago
Monzo is much bigger in the UK, but less than Revolut outside
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by rogy 7y ago
20$ for a single day of food gives you ‘direct perspective’ ? come on now.
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by rogy 7y ago
only works if you know where your app store icon is. i dont use the icons from the launcher screens anymore, everything goes in one folder bar the 'sticky apps' find it much faster to just pull down and search for apps
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by rogy 7y ago
I relate to this hard. I joined a company a while back where everyone below a product manager (there was little real 'engineering' management) was a line on the factory floor to delivering features, and fixes. PM would hold a mont
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by rogy 7y ago
I work on software for datacenter server technicians and try and spend a week every quarter on the floor doing their job, honestly find it one of the most enjoyably aspects to my role
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by rogy 7y ago
File London under this too, the majority of 'upper mid range' or 'cool' places to eat now are, turn up, sign up to waiting list, come back in 30mins-2hr
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by rogy 7y ago
God this, my number one share contact is my ex, who i broke up with almost 5 years ago, and literally havent contacted in over 4. This person isn't even a contact in my contacts anymore, yet still top HOW.
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by rogy 7y ago
Everytime I see one of this guys videos pop up I can't help but this he's a bit of a parasite. Leaching off anything for views. He doesn't seem to provide any valuable advice in any video I've watched, yet people lap it
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by rogy 7y ago
Any links? Googling seems to just give me a list of random shortcuts rather than any discussion on how he uses them
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by rogy 7y ago
And increasingly common in the UK

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